Netflix, DC Studios & Peter Safran

Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal board Parker Posey for Sleepover, a 2027 horror pic from Jacob Chase and Bryce McGuire; Jason Blum produces and the film is adapted from McGuire's original short story.

Blumhouse taps Craig Zobel to direct Something Is Killing the Children, turning the BOOM! Studios comic into a 2027 tentpole after unveiling the project at BlumFest New York Comic Con.

Principal photography is underway in the Canary Islands on the Spanish horror-comedy, with Danny Trejo boarding the ensemble opposite Sandra Escacena, Aria Bedmar and Nira Osahia; Igna L. Vacas writes and directs for Teikirisi Films and Panic in Frames.

Shiver launches worldwide on iOS and Android this October with roughly 40 hours of vertical-only horror programming; Scott Vandiver is building a mobile-first slate with weekly series drops.

Hulu has ordered Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot to series; Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler lead the new FBI duo, with Coogler directing the pilot via Proximity Media and Chris Carter back as EP.

June 25, 2027 is locked for Kim Jee-woon’s The Hole at Orion; Theo James, Hoyeon, Yeom Hye-ran and Christian Slater star in the Seoul-set thriller adapting Hye-young Pyun’s novel, with Anthology Studios, K. Period Media and Esmail Corp producing.

20-part true-crime series greenlit as a two-season, 10-episode-per-run order shot back-to-back in Manitoba; ITV Studios handles international distribution, with provincial tax credits up to 65% and a 25% federal incentive in play.

Warner Bros.' R-rated body-horror Clayface traces back to pre-DC Studios development with Mike Flanagan and Matt Reeves; James Watkins directs, Tom Rhys Harries leads, and the film opens Oct. 23.

Wild Eye sets a Nov. 24 digital video rollout for The Point Pleasant Tapes; Jesse P. Pollack and Dan Jones' Mothman found-footage piece leans hard on folklore and paranormal dread.

17 million views made Below Netflix’s biggest Canadian series debut and put the Josh Hartnett creature feature at No. 1 on the English TV chart.

IllFonic has lined up new licensing partnerships with Trancas International Films and Miramax for Halloween: The Game; the first DLC wave adds Michael Myers skins, a free map, and paid character/costume packs.

R-rated body-horror 'Clayface' is tracking a $20M-$29M domestic opening against a $40M budget; Warner Bros. and DC Studios are testing a lower-risk comic-book template with James Watkins behind the camera.

Peacock led Q3 streaming-movie viewership, while Disney+ raised ad-tier and ad-free prices, CNN's D2C streamer is heading to the U.K. and Canada on Oct. 20, and Getty Images is going private with $270M of debt waived in the deal.

Horror remains the highest-ROI lane in box office math; the analysis leans on microbudget breakouts from The Blair Witch Project to Paranormal Activity and Get Out to argue studios keep buying scares because cheap production plus theatrical demand still prints cash.

Netflix licenses the first three seasons of From, giving MGM+'s breakout horror series a fresh SVOD window ahead of season five.

20 new episodes are coming for Forensic Files as Radial Entertainment, Content Partners and ITV Studios reboot the true-crime brand and push its 400-episode library across digital platforms; the same model is already being rolled out on The FBI Files.

Tubi loads its October slate with three creator-led originals from Mackenzie Turner, Sofi Manassyan and CelinaSpookyBoo; the free streamer is leaning harder into Halloween horror and mystery.

50 horror shorts are in contention for Ripcord Halloween Film Festival’s $100,000 prize pot; audience voting gives the event a built-in discovery engine for emerging indie genre filmmakers. The competition slate keeps shorts circulation alive ahead of fall-festival season.

Toluca Pictures renews and expands its Amazon MGM overall; the first-look now spans features and documentaries, while Max Kisbye moves up to president of television & film and Jessica Farrelly, Elan Fingles, and Mia Stelling are promoted.

$15 million Spanish queer epic La Bola Negra won a Cannes bidding war for Netflix; the streamer is giving it a 46-day theatrical exclusive, its longest cinema window yet.

17 million views turned Below into Netflix’s latest breakout and a record Canadian launch; the six-episode sea-monster thriller is being sold as a Stephen King-Jaws hybrid.

Disney+ is out as co-financier, the BBC has opened a competitive tender, and Russell T Davies says Doctor Who will restart production next summer with a brand-new Doctor and companion; the AI backlash only sharpens the reboot’s stakes.

Disney is stalking-horse bidding $20 million for bankrupt Character.ai, seeking a perpetual non-exclusive license to select IP and claims. The move follows Disney's hire of Character CEO Karandeep Anand and pushes the company deeper into in-house generative-AI tooling.

Kling AI is being folded into real production pipelines across Asia, with filmmakers using it for everything from creature effects to virtual performances and large-scale animation; the ACFM/Busan panel framed AI as a directable tool rather than a replacement for human authorship.

Kickstarter brought in $65,684 against a $50K goal for Casey Donahue's horror feature, which world premieres at Toronto After Dark in the fest's new Late Night Program; the miniDV shoot kept the budget micro and the cast includes James Urbaniak, Mike Mitchell, Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett.

Brouhaha Entertainment's Dr Trauma lands $100K in development support from Dynamic Television and Screen Australia; the project blends psychological thriller and medical drama around nightmare visions tied to a murder victim's transplanted heart.

Swamp Thing is still in active script development at DC Studios; Peter Safran says James Mangold’s take remains in progress. The R-rated horror-fantasy title is moving, but no production start is set.

Usher Morgan and Katie Vincent's Plucked opens in theaters in November on a sub-$300K budget; the Gilded Age horror-comedy is playing the microbudget theatrical lane.

Bleecker Street has set The Third Parent for a winter release after a Budapest shoot; Crispin Glover stars as Tommy Taffy in the Reddit nosleep-to-feature adaptation, with Rob Lowe and Roselyn Sánchez co-starring.

Alliance Media Partners boards world sales as Nathan Tape's dark web horror thriller wraps principal photography; first-look imagery lands on a digital-isolation, algorithmic-manipulation premise.